God help us - part 2

Last week has  been a week of senseless violence around the country with much talk on the violence in Dallas TX.

When reporting this violence, the common denominator that defines modern media  is severe delusion with intense blindness brought to us by a dominant liberal mindset.

Plz note, I am no longer concerned over the possibility I could offend a liberal minded believer or non believer.
I am becoming more and more convinced every day, that of all the things a liberal fears most, a mirror tops the list.
In other words, people simply do not desire seeing themselves as they truly are.

That's why the Bible these days
Is not welcome. It reveals who we are.
Besides us not being as wonderful as we think we are, the things we attempt to do, in solving the problem of violence, have zero effect on this culture.

Looking at life, this life and this culture, after having seen ourselves as we truly are, is a risky endeavor.

Those apart from the absolutes set forth by God, are completely clueless as to how to account for a culture  such as this.
In utter vain, they scramble their brains trying to give account for these violent acts of terror /murder.
We "think" our backgrounds have something to do with it.
We "think" maybe it's physical and  it could be medicines that might help.
Maybe less of this (guns) or more of that (love) , might be the answer.
Maybe if we were more tolerant?
Maybe if we stopped letting people in (our country)
And on and mercilessly on it goes.


Even Christians,  ignorant of God's complete Word,  struggle to fit this culture into the soundbites  they heard on some radio sermon or Sunday message.
These Christians don't even believe, what they think that Bible says.
 When someone asks them "how  can a loving God allow these things to occur"  , they have no answer.
The best they can do is to say God loves everyone and then invite them to church.

I am of the mindset that if a person could just see and hear for themselves, how easily we are Deceived, they will want to search more on there own, how that happened. I even began blogging thinking that.
But I'm beginning to see clearly, blind is blind.

Whether we like it or not (and most don't) there is no "fixing" this culture.
Try telling that to a pie in the sky younger  generation, one which thinks everything they do will make the world better. Try telling them that they won't be raising there kids in a similar culture that their parents and grandparents  had.
After telling that, try telling them, that's not a bad thing.
Trust me, they won't  believe you.

And why should they?
Those 30 and under were weaned (under the "watchful" eye of their parents) with a joystick in one hand and an iPad in the the other, leaving no room to pick up that Bible to get the truth.

Us parents "thought" we were giving them a better life than we had. After all, isn't that what our parents gave us?
By the time we figured it out, when junior wouldn't leave home, the thrill of getting to the next level has dominated there minds not to mention, the thrill of watching actual violence play out live, on their smart phone.


When it comes to explaining the violence in this country to christian young people, trying to undo the damage from a liberal media along with an emergent church, is an ever growing painful experience.

They both (church & media) preach the same thing, in different ways.
That were just a couple of laws away from, getting it right.
How long has it been, having each generation think they can do things better than the last?

How can christian parents (who've read God's Word) tell their kids that God's Word is against their Facebook posts.
Those (painful to read) posts are feelings deep inside them.

How can we tell them, that the church they love has its reasons for withholding massive parts of scripture from them.
Reasons they would find impossible to believe now.

Looking back now, the main thing that was missing, from churches from my upbringing, was passion in regards to God's Word. Even God Himself.
Passion.
That's what was missing.
I guess that's why the charismatic church grew.
Hey.. Drummed up passion is better than no passion, right?
But even passion can deceive a believer so letting down our guards for even a moment (or taking our eyes off Jesus)  can take a person far from the truth.


How I got this passion and love, for God's Word at the age of 54 is beyond me. I don't take this lightly. For God to bring me to this point, He had to trudge me through an unbelievable blessed & affluent society.
God reached thru all the effects a blessed society and has and rescued me from its deception.
If He did that for my wife and myself, He can do that for our kids.
Trusting in God while being raised in a blessed culture must be the most challenging ways to find God,simply due to the fact, most people fool themselves into believing everything is OK.
We interpret life thru circumstances and experiences.  Ever hear some Christian say "you must experience God?"
Of course we have.
Life was so amazingly good for us that my children had to invent their problems. Now thats an affluent society to be sure.

For as long as I can remember, I've thanked God for the most mundane of things we daily have. I've come into a land (by birth) that had in place, extraordinary blessings. From jam packed cereal isles to warm in the winter /cool in the summer cars to drive.
I, as many, never took that for granted.
But is that enough?
Yes & no.

Yes, if we know where all things come from..
and no, if we think we either had something to do with it or that we somehow deserve it.

People walk around all day, every day, enjoying God's nature, breathing God's air, using God's resources, marveling at God's wonders, they see the sun come up and the rain come down.

The number one reason that would keep anyone from seeing the truth , is the notion that we are all accountable to the One who provides it all.
Just think of marriages you know, where one spouse didn't see the worth of being accountable to the other,and watch how long it lasts.

I began this post considering the past weeks acts of violence around the country. From MN to LA to TX.
My intent was to convey that finding reasons for such acts are nearly impossible to find.
Explaining the truth to young believers is just as impossible. So whats the real problem?

Sin.

There. That's the reason. Now was that so hard to say?
Actually, yes. That's the toughest thing to say. Just ask any emergent church growth leader whose afraid to tell their congregation what sin is in fear they might mention something they are doing, and they would leave the church.
News flash : these people usually leave anyway.
It's even tougher for believers because they think they are exempt from these horrendous acts of violence they hear daily.

Today's believer takes on a notion of one standing outside the box (of culture) and wagging a finger at all the nasty stuff that takes place.
We kind of look at these things from afar.

Non believers deceive themselves into thinking it's there own will that keeps them off the headline news.
That's actually worse, in many ways.

So what do we have?
We have believers who think they couldn't be like those they see on the news..
and non believers who think they've kept themselves from being like those they see on the news.

So then..who the heck are these people , showing up on the news all the time, killing people.
Haven't people figured out yet, that its the news that determines whats important in most peoples heads?
They pick the stories that they think will create the most interest.
I mean, one person killed, thats nothing. But 5 people killed.
Ever wonder how, out of countless abductings that take place in this country , what criteria the news uses to report the ones they do? We say , they can't report them all. True. Thats why we have local news.
I'm talking mainstream news,cnn,fox.
Im guessing, the ones that get aired resemble CSI tv. But a missing child always brings in the viewers.
Add to that some bad guy (you know,those who the one watching could never be) and what people have is the same feeling generated after watching a batman movie. Where the good guy usually wins.

Its not the news that creates these nuts that kill people.
But the news goes a long ways as to shaping a cultures perspectives of it.
It makes me ill , every time I hear a reporter ask "what was the guy thinking , just before he killed 20 people."
I can just imagine that viewer whose watching this say.."yeah, what was he thinking" as if that would make any difference.
The only difference it makes is , it causes the one watching  (as well as the one reporting it) to ask themselves if they ever thought what that killer has thought.
If not, they are good.

If I sound cynical ,thats because I am. If I sound like I have no joy , you'd be right.
That joy, as defined by the christian and non christian culture , few have. That joy is a virtual kind of joy.

The Joy the Bible speaks of , I praise God I underservingly have.

So many believers  fail to see, that if not for God's Spirit living in them, they too have the potential being far from God. They too could be on fox news as a top story.

It's only by God's grace they are who they are in Christ.When that's seen clearly, Joy and passion for God, is not far behind.


My desire when posting this way, will always be the same.
We as Christians , need to be telling these young Christians behind us , to get into Gods complete Word.
They will need this , conflicting with cultures message , to have real answers to todays issues.
They will need this to teach their children ( our grandkids) the truth because they will wittness so much more then their parents ever did.
In these troubling days, we need [ and have ] something solid to be standing on.
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